---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paras Kuhad paras.kuhad@gmail.com Date: Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:00 AM Subject: [Lugb_ml] The Basic Cause To: Linux User Group Lugb_ml@lugb.in
I received some common questions regarding RajasFoss and took the opportunity to tell my junior fellows what is rajasfoss about. Here is what I posted to them, post may be useful to our newcomers in mailing lists or using our content. ----
*Q*. "Everyone wants to know about what will be taught or told in rajasfoss? is it about describing ones project at foss? thanks in advance." Reply:
I am highlighting these things first because this is what, that should be concluded after reading this mail and of course I would love to see this mail forwarded to curious individuals who care about such things.
[ 1 ] First of all I would say you are very lucky as you are going to be a witness of information collaborative environment at RajasFoss [ 2 ] I introduce you to the word 'talk' : It means an individual would tell about his expertise, tools he use, about latest technologies and in talk you just have to sit in your seat and listen to one. No wonder if you can get all he/she is saying, but you will let yourself free in amazing world of knowledge. [ 3 ] In couple of days, talk topics and speaker lists will be there on our site (http://rajasfoss.lugb.in). There are enormous things and topics that can be talked in college and among curious minds, so just find out what you are curious at. So how are you going to do that : simple observe the talk list and speakers, go and search about topics and technologies they are going to talk about. If some of them will intrigues you then do some home work for that, spend some time about exploring it. [ 4 ] Fortunately the way we study, resources that we have are enormous but unfortunately proxies to them are not that efficient or cloaked. It is same as having a 4 mbps of internet connection in your hand but in the middle it is the proxy server that limits you and indirectly decides your surfing behaviour and in this context proxies are our books and lecturers and the way some other things are. They are going to remain as they are. No matter, here is some change, we let you know about learning resources, open methods, open standard and ways where you can flourish your curiosity and find out similar interest partners. [ 5 ] In short you should not miss it.
If you are done with these five points and are at the bottom of my view, what I want to tell you then you should stop reading here. Further I write some naive explanation : When we grew up nobody knows what we are interested in and further if we get the thing in which we are interested, how we are going to get it, nobody knows. So simply our guardians, our schools and colleges provides us a broadcasting system. Signals of knowledge are delivered to us and we are a kind of receivers. But .. alas the frequencies and such receivers are not in our control, how good it would be if we can set the frequency to the channel you wanted to listen ever. And this is not the limit, if you don't like the way how frequency is delivered to the system and you have some reason for that as because you got a better way to do that. You might come up with a whole set of new protocols. But to do that you should have an open standard in your hand. For your amusement here I unveil the secret of making easy and obvious things 'hard' : Just make them close, just hide them under the mist how they works. Is there any mystery resides there in making a cup of tea , obviously No .. because the recipe is open and you can add your own kind of garam masala practicals to that. So, I am just trying to let you understand the open source / foss philosophy. It is exact what I used with a tea metaphor . It is the tea which you can fork up and come with your own idea of a new flavour. But how will you get to know how many flavours are already there... I mean how many teas/flavours are there how they were made and what are more potentials. An obvious thing will be to use internet and read up things, that's good but how amazing it would be if we gather somewhere where some persons from the same philosophy come up at stage and tell you about some mesmerizing ideas and clues that you can trace with your own minds. And that's what we call an open change in our mindsets and RajasFOSS is all about it. In very crude way this is an attempt about spreading some words that would force you to rethink about your own possibilities.
Go ahead and join , and by reading this reply you have already relished the flavour of sharing thoughts.
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